With Parkland Memorial Hospital embroiled in regulatory troubles, its board of managers has scheduled a closed-door meeting for Saturday — the second in two days — and will review Dr. Ron Anderson’s performance as chief executive officer.

Board chairwoman Lauren McDonald said that while she has confidence in the “people in place” at the county hospital, Anderson’s future is under consideration. Anderson, who has been the public face of Parkland for more than two decades, is under contract through Dec. 31.

“We’re trying to decide what direction he wants to go in, and what direction we want to go in,” McDonald said. “Maybe he’ll be a consultant, I don’t know. We have to see what’s going to happen. Kind of like his call.”

In an email response to The Dallas Morning News, Anderson said that he doesn’t intend to resign and hasn’t been asked to step down.

The News disclosed this week that federal regulators found wide-ranging violations of health care standards at Parkland posing “an immediate and serious threat” to patients. An internal Parkland memo summarized the most severe violations, including putting emergency-room patients at risk of death, failing to ensure outdated medications weren’t available for patient use and not following basic sanitary steps to avoid spreading potentially lethal infections.

In a rare step, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services warned Parkland that it has until Aug. 20 to submit a plan to fix the problems or risk losing hundreds of millions of dollars in government funding.

Dallas County officials have sought more information on the CMS findings from Parkland executives, and County Judge Clay Jenkins has summoned the hospital’s officials for a full briefing Tuesday to the Commissioners Court, which appoints Parkland’s board. Jenkins was unavailable for comment Friday.

Commissioner Elba Garcia said she had no knowledge of specific issues to be discussed at Saturday’s hospital board meeting. It will be at the Highland Park law offices of board member Debbie Branson.

Garcia said the CMS findings provide Parkland’s board “an opportunity” for a change in leadership.

“I believe that executive board needs to evaluate everything — from the foundation all the way to the top,” said Garcia, who has raised concerns about Parkland’s safety practices in recent months. “This review has been an eye-opener and gives us an opportunity to look at the system as a whole and make changes.”

Board members met in a three-hour closed session Friday to discuss the CMS violations. When the board convened in a public session, it held no discussions or votes and adjourned after about a minute. Members quickly left, and two who were approached by reporters referred questions to McDonald.

At the same time the board was meeting Friday, CMS released a report to The News citing the hospital for violating the rights of a 36-year-old brain-surgery patient who wandered out of the hospital on June 29 and wasn’t found by police until the next day. The hospital acknowledged it failed to safeguard him, although he needed 24-hour supervision.

This year has already brought major changes at Parkland.

Dallas County commissioners replaced most of the Parkland board members, but left McDonald, who has long exceeded a six-year term limit. And in the last week, Parkland’s chief operating officer, John Haupert, was formally named to the top post at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital.

The agenda for Saturday’s board meeting includes “potential consulting services” and “contracts and personnel matters involving Dr. Ron Anderson, including evaluations and options.”

McDonald said the session had nothing to do with the CMS report, and Anderson’s review is routine.

Anderson turns 65 in September and suffers from diabetes. McDonald told The News earlier this year that Anderson “feels he is no longer wanting to do the full-time CEO job.”

McDonald said hospital staff is working on its plan to correct problems cited by CMS, led by Anderson and chief medical officer Dr. John Jay Shannon.

Hospital officials continued on Friday to decline to release the entire CMS inspection report, saying they would do so only after their corrective plan was finished, which should be later this month.

CMS spokesman Bob Moos said hospitals are free to release such CMS reports.

On the same floor where Parkland’s board was briefed on the CMS inspection, Parkland’s lobby, hallways and waiting rooms teemed with hundreds of patients.

Sisters Ginger Jerina and Pam Halbert were among the crush of people. They’ve come to Parkland on and off for decades, but neither knew Parkland had just been cited for significant health and safety deficiencies.

Asked whether they would like to have access to the report now, they were unequivocal. “They should put it on the wall,” Jerina said.